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		<title>B61 Nuclear Bomb Costs Escalating</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 18:37:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The expected cost of the B61 Life-Extension Program has increased by 50 percent to $6 billion . By Hans M. Kristensen The expected cost of the B61 Life-Extension Program (LEP) has increased by 50 percent to $6 billion dollars, according to U.S. government sources. Only one year ago, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) estimated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report: US and Russian Non-Strategic Nuclear Weapons</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2012/05/nonstrategicnukes.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 19:51:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report describes U.S. and Russian non-strategic nuclear weapons . By Hans M. Kristensen A new report estimates that Russia and the United States combined have a total of roughly 2,800 nuclear warheads assigned to their non-strategic nuclear forces. Several thousands more have been retired and are awaiting dismantlement. The report comes shortly before [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nuclear Studies and Republican Disarmers</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2012/02/republicandisarmers.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:36:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite an outcry from congressional republicans and conservatives against the Obama administration’s plans to reduce nuclear weapons, Republican presidents have been the big disarmers in the post-Cold War era.                                        Click graph for larger version . By [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cirincione: Obama’s Turn on Nuclear Weapons</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2012/02/cirincione.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/?p=5179</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Hans M. Kristensen It is worth your time reading Joe Cirincione’s article in Foreign Affairs: Obama’s Turn on Nuclear Weapons. And I’m not just saying this because Joe is president of the Ploughshares Fund, one of my funders. He does a great job in describing the Obama administration&#8217;s ongoing nuclear targeting review and its place in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget Blunder: “No Cuts” in Nuclear Forces</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2012/01/budget.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 18:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new defense budget has &#8220;no cuts&#8221; in nuclear forces. . By Hans M. Kristensen “There are no cuts made in the nuclear force in this budget.” That clear statement was made yesterday by deputy defense secretary Ashton Carter during the Pentagon’s briefing on the defense budget request for Fiscal Year 2013. We’ll have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A New Defense Strategy: A New Nuclear Strategy?</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2012/01/a-new-defense-strategy.php</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:52:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Hans M. Kristensen The Obama administration today presented a new defense strategy that it says is needed to realign U.S. military forces and doctrine with the reductions in combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the new fiscal constraints created by the financial crisis. There are few details in the new strategy for how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>US Releases Full New START Data</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 13:15:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Obama administration gets a medal for disclosing its New START treaty numbers. . By Hans M. Kristensen [updated 12 Dec 2011 with new bomber information] Anyone familiar with my writings knows that I don’t hand out medals to the nuclear weapon states very often. But the Obama administration deserves one after the U.S. State Department’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Article On Obama Administration Nuclear Targeting Review</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/11/targetreview.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/11/targetreview.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 22:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New article published in Arms Control Today . By Hans M. Kristensen The latest issue of Arms Control Today includes a new article by Robert Norris and myself about the nuclear targeting review that is currently underway in the Obama administration. In ordering the review, formally known as the Post-NPR Review, President Obama has asked the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>End of the B53 Era; Continuation of the Spin Era</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/10/end-of-the-b53-era.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/10/end-of-the-b53-era.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 20:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katie Colten</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Katie Colten and Hans Kristensen [Modifed] Today, one of the largest weapons in the United States nuclear weapons arsenal, the B53, will be dismantled at the Pantex Plant in Amarillo, Texas. Developed during the Cold War and deployed in 1962, this bomb weighs as much as a minivan and has an explosive yield of nine megatons, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New START Data: Modest Reductions and Decreased Transparency</title>
		<link>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/10/newstartdata.php</link>
		<comments>http://www.fas.org/blog/ssp/2011/10/newstartdata.php#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 21:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hans M. Kristensen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New START aggregate numbers have been published by the United States and Russia. . By Hans M. Kristensen The latest New START treaty aggregate numbers of strategic arms, which was quietly released by the State Department earlier last week, shows modest reductions and important changes in U.S. and Russian strategic nuclear forces. Most surprisingly, the [...]]]></description>
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